ok so i am up grading my dual boot blag winXP thinkpad 40gig drive to a 120 gb drive I use some windows program to make a copy of the drive and to proportionally make all the partitions bigger eg so what was a 5 gig partition is now a 15 gb partition on the new hd.
When i boot up the new drive grub is gone so i reinstall blag and grub is back but when i boot into winxp (which unfortunatly i do need) i get this msg

# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.# root (hd0,6)# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img#boot=/dev/hdadefault=1timeout=5splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gzhiddenmenutitle BLAG (2.6.18-1.2869.fc6) root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet selinux=0 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.imgtitle Whatever rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1

I think this is the same grub .config as other machines i got and they work i did notice that hda1 / HPFS/NTFS system starts on cylinder 1 is that right?
so is there somthing up with grub or is the winxp on that partition fucked?
Any ideas anyone i have googled a bit and dont seem to find anything that makes sense (to me anyway) and being command line dyslexic dosnt help :(
thanks zcat
installed blag60k

Last edited by zcat on Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:14 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Now im wondering if there is anyway I can do the same thing in blag rather than a crappy windowz program.
Migrate a drive to a new one but it has to be able to do it proportionally so that I get all partitions bigger than they were on the original hd as then i know it would work the way I want it to
i have tried to do it in windoz and if i just make a straight copy it works but i have the same problems as i had on the old 40gb hd (not enough space on the win C drive and no way of making it bigger) (because of the extended partition, I think)
as i said im fairly command line dyslexic so need either very clear instructions or a gui.
cheers zcat

Check up on the process that you used to copy the original data in the
first place, unless you know that you got it right first time. There
are quite a few tools that you can use to repartition your disk(s)....

I got some advice from shawoho in irc and reformated the partition with ntfs (upgraded to 70k) and then simply cp,ed the original partition into the newly reformatted one.
it couldnt have been easier :)
after dicking about with bloody windows apps for days it took 2 hours
oh i wish that some linux geek would write some good film and photo apps
then i wouldnt need windoze

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